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The number of migrants from non-EU countries living in Hounslow also rose, from 38,000 in 2016 to 50,000 in June 2018.

The Hounslow figure vary signficantly to nearby Hillingdon - which is home to the likes of Uxbridge , Hayes , Ruislip, West Drayton, Eastcote, Harefield, Northwood, Ickenham, Yeading and Yiewsley - as the number of EU citizens living in that borough fell from 33,000 in 2016 to 28,000 in June.

The estimates are based on the Annual Population Survey (APS). They count EU citizens living at private addresses and students in halls of residence, whose parents live in the UK.

Students with parents living abroad or migrants living at communal establishments, like hotels or hostels, are excluded.

All the numbers were rounded by the ONS to nearest thousand.

A table showing how the number of EU citizens living in Hounslow has fluctuated since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 (Image: ONS)

Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said: “The number of EU citizens living in the UK has increased since the referendum, but the pace of change is much slower than in the past.

"This is because fewer EU citizens are choosing to come to the UK and more are leaving. The UK has become a less attractive destination.

"Most EU citizens come to the UK for work, and the falling value of the pound means that what they can earn here is now worth less than it was a couple of years ago. The political and economic uncertainty of Brexit may also play a role.

“Changes in nationwide migration patterns are likely to affect different areas in different ways, depending on factors like what jobs are on offer in the local economy and what groups of migrants that area has traditionally attracted."

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Jay Lindop, director of the Centre for International Migration at the ONS, added that non-EU net migration was as its highest since 2004, mainly spurred by Asian people looking for a job or starting their studies.

She said: "Net migration continues to add to the population and has remained fairly stable since its peak in 2016. However, there are different patterns for EU and non-EU migration.

"Due to increasing numbers arriving for work and study, non-EU net migration is now at the highest level since 2004. In contrast, EU net migration, while still adding to the population as a whole, is at the lowest since 2012.

"Decisions to migrate are complex and people's decision to move to or from the UK will be influenced by a range of factors."

The ONS estimates that more than 3.7 million EU citizens were living in the UK in June.

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